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<blockquote data-quote="RJS91" data-source="post: 1666863" data-attributes="member: 467435"><p>I can relate. Diagnosed at 5, now 29, basal bolus has steadily destabilised my blood sugar control. I have now crashed my car TWICE in a year from a hypo. It doesn't get easier.</p><p>Here in the UK, type 1 cases are eclipsed by type 2 by a ratio of 9:1 at least. Type 2 was originally considered an adult disease, but the explosion in type 2 cases has shifted the focus to environmental factors - namely fatty and sugary foods. As such, whenever you say diabetes the thought that crosses a lot of minds is "lose some weight". I have very little doubt that the consensus has been echoed in the Philippines, and the myriad causes of type 1 must have got lost in the relay of information as it has here.</p><p>Case in point, you can't go a week without seeing some attention-grabbing front page headline (Express, mainly) saying "New Tool for Fighting Against Diabetes" or some such tripe. It takes no more than a cursory glance ti see that it is all about type 2. That pretty much sums up the public acknowledgement of diabetes in the UK.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RJS91, post: 1666863, member: 467435"] I can relate. Diagnosed at 5, now 29, basal bolus has steadily destabilised my blood sugar control. I have now crashed my car TWICE in a year from a hypo. It doesn't get easier. Here in the UK, type 1 cases are eclipsed by type 2 by a ratio of 9:1 at least. Type 2 was originally considered an adult disease, but the explosion in type 2 cases has shifted the focus to environmental factors - namely fatty and sugary foods. As such, whenever you say diabetes the thought that crosses a lot of minds is "lose some weight". I have very little doubt that the consensus has been echoed in the Philippines, and the myriad causes of type 1 must have got lost in the relay of information as it has here. Case in point, you can't go a week without seeing some attention-grabbing front page headline (Express, mainly) saying "New Tool for Fighting Against Diabetes" or some such tripe. It takes no more than a cursory glance ti see that it is all about type 2. That pretty much sums up the public acknowledgement of diabetes in the UK. [/QUOTE]
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